Nature
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature.
We must return to nature and nature's god.
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
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